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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.


Mark Twain

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JOSH BILLINGS The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
HENRY WHEELER SHAW The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
JOSH BILLINGS People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS... Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.
JAMES C. DOBSON It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't...
EDWIN ARMSTRONG The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so r...
MARK TWAIN You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that...

So, what next!?...
DEYTH BANGER Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th...
DEYTH BANGER It would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so.
FELIX OKOYE The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know ...
RONALD REAGAN It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's the things we know that ain't...
ARTEMUS WARD (WRITER) It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know th...
EDWIN ARMSTRONG The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
BILL SHANKLY The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
JOHN BARRYMORE The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time
JOHN BARRYMORE Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never rea...
JODI PICOULT Aside from all that, she was carrying about a million tons of titanium ore to the heavy industries o...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The trouble with those people is that they think all the best things are made in the cities. It is n...
ERNEST POOLE I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that cause...
EDWIN ARMSTRONG It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.
RONALD REAGAN The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.
JOSH BILLINGS The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.
JOSH BILLINGS The people that know the least about you say the most about you. Aint that hilarious?
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER We walked beside each other, talking about things we should have been least concerned about. But at ...
MELITA TESSY The things of substance are the things that we need to focus on, but they are the things that seem t...
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE But I know that the despair that these young people ? and older people, too ? face is so huge, and t...
CAROL PEARSON But I know that the despair that these young people ? and older people, too ? face is so huge, and t...
CAROL LYNN PEARSON shocked to know that so many rich governments have given so little.
KOFI ANNAN I was seized by doubt. Should I have come here? But going back was impossible. I had fled a known te...
RICHARD WRIGHT It's so comforting to know that there are so many people in this world sicker than I am.
TIM CURRY So that you will hear me
my words
sometimes grow thin
as the tracks of the gulls on t...
PABLO NERUDA The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, The trouble with...
SINCLAIR LEWIS The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble wit...
SINCLAIR LEWIS The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, ''The trouble wi...
SINCLAIR LEWIS I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that c...
EDWIN ARMSTRONG So aint you think just causen you in this car now means any damn thing. It aint. He pretending it do...
STACIA KANE Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Not only did we not know there was so much poverty, but also that so many of these poor people were ...
CECIL WILLIAMS Not only did we not know there was so much poverty, but also that so many of these poor people were ...
CECIL WILLIAMS 'Not only did we not know there was so much poverty, but also that so many of these poor people were...
CECIL WILLIAMS Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat...
DADA BHAGWAN He who knows that he doesn't know, knows what he needs to know.
VIKRANT PARSAI I'm sure that I know that, it's behind one of all doors.
DEYTH BANGER There are so many things to say; so many things that can't really be said.
So much has happene...
ALYSHA SPEER What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that...
J. D. HAYWORTH Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forge...
WALT DISNEY Many people have trouble with forgiveness because they have been taught it is a singular act to be c...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES The trouble with life
isn't that there is no answer,
but that there are so many answers
RUTH BENEDICT Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.
KINKY FRIEDMAN I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
SAMUEL MCCHORD CROTHERS The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them
SAMUEL MCCHORD CROTHERS I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST It's only awkward if it matters.
JOYCE RACHELLE 142.—As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little m...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some ...
BRYAN WHITE There are so many glamorous actresses, but you know what? In the real world, nobody looks like that.
REBEL WILSON If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not b...
YOUNG The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
PHILIP KNIGHT Why try to have pigs fly
When ducks already can
_ Why try to have pigs fly
When ducks already can
ELLA C. Jesus asks me to loosen my grip on the things that matter to me. It’s only then He can fill my han...
ANUSHA ATUKORALA Mani nogurdina lielās lietas un norises. Es meklēju lielās norises mazajās.
IMANTS ZIEDONIS Well, I had to be kind of strict a little bit because the things that we were surrounded with, you k...
JOSEPH JACKSON I was not too happy with the bogey but these things happen. It's only my third bogey of the week. I'...
DAVID PARK We all know that things here in the House go extremely slow, but I happen to think that eight months...
CAROLYN MCCARTHY Employees know that Tenet is in financial trouble. But we know that no matter what happens, St. Mary...
FRANK GENUNG Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within th...
HELEN KELLER We have to open ourselves up to God so that He can teach us the things that the world does not know
SUNDAY ADELAJA The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; a...
MOTHER THERESA Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the bi...
DANIEL MAINWARING You know it's easy not noticing important things in life when you’re on that Hamster wheel running...
DANIEL OKE It ain't so much what people don't know that hurts as what they know that ain't so.
ARTEMUS WARD (WRITER) I think humans might be like butterflies; people die every day without many other people knowing abo...
C. JOYBELL C. You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make ...
RICHARD CURTIS Time is so important.'so spend time doing something that you love.' make the most of it and Let the ...
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO So many desire to know the complicated will of God for their lives, yet they do not do the simple th...
RIAAN VAN WYK The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.
RUTH BENEDICT The teenage years are my least favorite, though my son is phenomenal. He does not get in trouble, an...
ROZONDA THOMAS Why do so many people start their messages with, "It's me"? Of course it is you. We all know that. B...
JEFF LINDSAY It is a sign of hope for many Catholics and for many people in the world that two so different peopl...
HANS KUENG We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so
WILL ROGERS It lets people know that it's a real and a serious and a treatable disorder, ... So many people for ...
JERILYN ROSS No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as...
RICHARD CURTIS You know, the things that matter in life are really hard to get.
VIKRANT PARSAI There have been so many discrepancies so far that it's hard to know what to believe. There are too m...
MARY TILLMAN I feel sorry and for the both characters the drama for the girl, which was unknown was one very big,...
DEYTH BANGER There are so many people in the world with so many different perspectives. But ultimately, at the he...
DAVE SITEK I'm happy that things are going up in the markets but when things get too bullish and too, I don't k...
DONALD SELKIN Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.
KINKY FRIEDMAN I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world tha...
KAREN KINGSBURY The trouble with Hollywood is that too many of the top people responsible for pictures are too comfo...
WILLIAM WYLER We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Look, I know that there are people who are racist, but what surprised me was that he was so open abo...
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ERALDO BANOVAC

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MARK TWAIN The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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MARK TWAIN Be good and you will be lonesome.
MARK TWAIN Chastity - you can carry it too far
MARK TWAIN To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.
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MARK TWAIN Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
MARK TWAIN When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.
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MARK TWAIN If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
MARK TWAIN There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
MARK TWAIN The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monot...
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MARK TWAIN Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
MARK TWAIN Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
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MARK TWAIN Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us...
MARK TWAIN Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
MARK TWAIN Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
MARK TWAIN I do not like work even when someone else does it.
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MARK TWAIN Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
MARK TWAIN Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
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MARK TWAIN When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.
MARK TWAIN Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
MARK TWAIN Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
MARK TWAIN We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the hum...
MARK TWAIN There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.
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MARK TWAIN In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
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MARK TWAIN There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.
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MARK TWAIN A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
MARK TWAIN A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
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MARK TWAIN The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
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MARK TWAIN Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employ a million.
MARK TWAIN It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
MARK TWAIN Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. Except a creature be part cowar...
MARK TWAIN Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself
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MARK TWAIN Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
MARK TWAIN It was the schoolboy who said, Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
MARK TWAIN Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
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MARK TWAIN I've never let my school interfere with my education.
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MARK TWAIN Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).
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MARK TWAIN Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the reall...
MARK TWAIN If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
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MARK TWAIN I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
MARK TWAIN The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
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MARK TWAIN Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
MARK TWAIN A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
MARK TWAIN All right, then, I'll go to hell.
MARK TWAIN The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
MARK TWAIN Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
MARK TWAIN If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.
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MARK TWAIN Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
MARK TWAIN Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
MARK TWAIN Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
MARK TWAIN I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.
MARK TWAIN If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
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